My 3D printing hobby by tomd

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About the Project

Last Aug i got my new Creality CR-10 FDM printer (hot selling printer at the time). The only regret i have now is that i waited 6 months to make my purchase. I will show what i finish in the last year and hopefully what i finish in the years to come :).

i added some color to a laserjet printed billboard sign. I soak the paper in water down PVA and glue to the side of my building. when dry painted some of the grey tortoise sign to give it some color to an otherwise black and white printout.

I added a working door and window pains to give my corner store a live-in look.

I was rushing through this project before hurricane Florence hit the east coast of United States between hurricane prep and listening to forcast for the upcoming storm. i manage to get a printable file done and printed before Florence made land fall. BTW the hurricane went right over us in Conway, South Carolina with very little damage,but now a week later we dealing the flooding.

Looking to 3d print some fallout style building. Looking around though the fallout 4 video game file i found a lot of very large and very tall building so i pick out a reasonable 2 story building.

I found this basic building, but it need a lot work. (This is typical for video game models it a bare structure with a texture over the top.)

I clean the file up in TinkerCAD to a reasonable state to be 3d printed. I desided to hollow out the inside to make playable and found the model not square. oops not a big deal.

i repair under the window and corner entrance (the corner wall was not vertical and the reinforcement i add show through at the top and bottom.) This look odd so i mirror the other side to look to even out the look.

The corner building look good enough so i sent the STL to my slicer program to print (OMG 49 hours on .20 mm course setting at 100 mm/s speed)

As the File was printing i ran though Fallout 4 on my PS4 collecting screen shot of this build. I found 2 of these across the street from each other in Forest Grove Marsh (which is west of Diamond City).

08)Warren suggest i print these flat, but it only save me about an hour and i still needed to put it all together. The Plus side is that the wall and roof are interchangeable and that open up a lot of possibilities.

I found my Benchy .(not sure it it my first or not )

In no particular order here are some 3D print that i finished in the past year.